Zveno

Zveno was a paternal autocratic political party in Bulgaria that existed from 1927 to 1949. The party was founded by army officers who advocated a statist and corporative economy, and they opposed political parties and the Macedonian liberation movement. In 1934, Zveno leaders Kimon Georgiev and Damyan Velchev seized power and established an authoritarian regime, dissolving all parties and trade unions; Zveno supporters sought to ally with France and unify Bulgaria with an integral Yugoslavia. However, King Boris III of Bulgaria orchestrated a monarchist coup under Pencho Zlatev in 1935, and the party joined the Bulgarian Fatherland Front in 1943 during World War II. In September 1944, the Fatherland Front overthrew the Axis government and joined the Comintern, and the party was disbanded as an autonomous organization in 1949 under the communist government, existing as a puppet organization into the 1960s.